Annie Dillard Quotes About Memories
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I sip my coffee. I look at the mountain, which is still doing its tricks, as you look at a still-beautiful face belonging to a person who was once your lover in another country years ago: with fond nostalgia, and recognition, but no real feelings save a secret astonishment that you are now strangers. Thanks. For the memories. It is ironic that the one thing that all religions recognize as separating us from our creator--our very self-consciousness--is also the one thing that divides us from our fellow creatures. It was a bitter birthday present from evolution, cutting us off at both ends.
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Old memories are very easy to get except that once you write about something you've destroyed it.
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Writers serve as the memory of a people. They chew over our public past.
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Appealing workplaces are to be avoided. One wants a room with no view, so imagination can meet memory in the dark.
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